"Before I Fought Ideology, Not Money": Věra Chytilová and the 1990s Transformation of Czech Cinema Culture

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=fsfAOhACCC" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=fsfAOhACCC</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2040350X.2018.1469204" target="_blank" >10.1080/2040350X.2018.1469204</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"Before I Fought Ideology, Not Money": Věra Chytilová and the 1990s Transformation of Czech Cinema Culture

Original language description

The 1990s are perceived as a low creative point in Věra Chytilová&apos;s career and a far cry from her celebrated 1960s and 1970s films. While these were the focus of scholarly interest as rich landscape from which claims about gender-dynamics, cinema and authorial position under state-socialism can be gaged, her post-1989 body of work and her position within the transforming film culture attracted considerably less critical attention. Shifting focus from state-socialism, feminism and solely textual readings of her films, this essay examines &apos;1990s Chytilová&apos; as a filmmaker in transition and a political activist. First, it explores her opposition to privatization of Barrandov Film Studios and identifies some of the discourses of privatization that gave the economic processes its socio-cultural meaning. Second, it looks at her films Dědictví and Pasti, pasti, pastičky in their production context arguing that they are best understood as a reflection of her adaptability to new conditions and an extension of her engagement in politics. In doing so, the essay thus reorients perception of Chytilová&apos;s 1990s films and her development as a director. Moreover, it contributes to the understanding of privatization by shedding new light on the cinematic dimensions of the post-communist shift to capitalist democracy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studies in Eastern European Cinema

ISSN

2040-350X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

39-54

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85070445836